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The Unsearchable Riches of Christ
Ton anexichniaston plouton [sic] tou Christou. The unsearchable riches of Christ. Or, Meat for strong men. Milk [for] babes. Held for th in twenty-two sermons from Ephesians 3.8. By Thomas Brooks, preacher of the Word at Margarets New-Fishstreet.Ton anexichniaston plouton [sic] tou Christou. The unsearchable riches of Christ. Or, Meat for strong men. Milke [for] babes. Held for th in twenty-two sermons from Ephesians 3.8. By Thomas Brookes, preacher of the Word at Margarets New-Fishstreet.
London: printed by Mary Simmons for John Hancock, 1655
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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Many Preachers in our days are like Heraclitus, who was called The Dark Doctor, they affect sublime notions, obscure expressions, uncouth phrases, making plain truths difficult, and easy truths hard. They darken counsel with words without knowledge, Job 38. 2. Studied expressions, and high notions in a Sermon, are like Asahel's Carcass in the way, that did only stop men, and make them gaze, but did no ways profit them, or better them. 'Tis better to present ⟨p. 132⟩truth in her native plainness, then to hang her ears with counterfeit Pearls.
Many Preachers in our dayes are like Heraclitus, who was called The Darke Doctour, they affect sublime notions, obscure expressions, uncouth phrases, making plaine truths difficult, and easie truths hard. They darken councel with words without knowledge, Job 38. 2. Studdied expressions, and high notions in a Sermon, are like Asahels Carkasse in the way, that did onely stop men, and make them gaze, but did no wayes profit them, or better them. 'Tis better to present ⟨p. 132⟩truth in her native plainnesse, then to hang her eares with counterfeit Pearles.
That's a remarkable Scripture, 1 Cor. 3. 1, 2. And I brethren, could not speak unto you, as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto Babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat, for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. The Apostle did not soar aloft in the Clouds, and express the Mysteries of the Gospel in such a dark obscure way, as that poor Creatures could not be able to pick out the mind of God in it: No, but he suited all his discourses to their capacities, and so must you.